Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.